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Hafertaler

Fantasy, SciFi and LitRPG Unending love for the VÖBB ❤️

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Iconic Series
Asian-inspired Fantasy
Pride 2026
My Taste
The Wandering Inn (The Wandering Inn, #1)
Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
The Name-Bearer (Flowers of Prophecy #1)
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
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Das Erbe des Zauberers (Scheibenwelt, #3)
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A Fire Endless
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A Fire Endless

A Fire Endless

Rebecca Ross

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Das Erbe des Zauberers (Scheibenwelt, #3)

Das Erbe des Zauberers (Scheibenwelt, #3)

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  • A Bone in His Teeth
    Hafertaler
    Jul 01, 2026
    A Bone in His Teeth
    4.5
    Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 4.0Audiobook: 5.0
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    Audiobook: brilliant narrator, 6/5 stars!

    Okay, this book far exceeded my expectations. I had expected a sweet, romantic story about two gay men in a small coastal town. What I got instead was one of the most genuine and authentic stories about two men navigating their fears, secrets, and struggles together—finding strength and security in each other despite all their traumatic and traumatizing experiences. The unexpectededly explicit sex scenes are written with such raw intensity yet with care to give all the participants room and to never let the sex feel like a plot device. I usually don't like books that want to be both plot driven and smutty, as I feel mostly authors can do one good but not the other. Kellen Graves manages to write them in a way that don't make me feel like a voyeur but also invested in the pleasure of the MCs. I take ½ of a star because while the story remained its good pace and never broke with previously established characteristics when there wasn't an authentic character development, parts of the ending felt sort of rushed and didn't tie up all the loose ends in a satisfactory way (for me personally). I liked the overall way the MCs dealt with the situation but I would have liked to know a bit more about some of the hints that I felt were given earlier in the story, but in the end just weren't relevant to the conclusion. Also the very-very end was a bit too kitschy for my taste.

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